•Firewood cooking Despite the inherent challenges, millions of households in Nigeria are still depending on native firewood cooking method, thereby exposed to health and environmental risks. The Executive Vice Chairman of National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) Khalil Suleiman Halilu raised the concern, where he wor...
A United States-based Nigerian nurse researcher, Omobolanle Agboola, has identified income insecurity, transportation challenges, and social isolation as major drivers of poor health across Nigerian communities. Agboola, a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, argued that poverty significantly affects Nigerians’ physical and mental hea...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned of a looming health crisis in Nigeria, as 200 million citizens are at risk of contracting 17 Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The organisation highlighted the urgent need to address open defecation as a key driver of these diseases, reports Vanguard. At a two-day media dialogue in Lagos...
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